Quotes about Vocation

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.

When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least to commend it is the twentieth. Has any century been so fascinated with gimmickry, so surfeited with fads, so addicted to nostrums, so unaware of God, so out of touch with the underground spiritual streams which water eternal life?

We fantasize an archaeological scoop. Meanwhile what we have right before us turns out to be far more useful—a theological probe. Instead of being told what Jeremiah's parents were doing, we are told what his God was doing: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that's what I had in mind for you" (Jer 1:5).

The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.